1 Kings 16:6
And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque ingressi essent, vidit Eliab, et ait : Num coram Domino est christus ejus ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῷ αὐτοὺς εἰσιέναι καὶ εἶδεν τὸν Ἐλιάβ, καὶ εἶπεν Ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐνώπιον Κυρίου χριστὸς αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֣י בְּבוֹאָ֔ם וַיַּ֖רְא אֶת אֱלִיאָ֑ב וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אַ֛ךְ נֶ֥גֶד יְהוָ֖ה מְשִׁיחֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Him. Hebrew, "surely the Lord's anointed is in his presence." This he spoke by his own spirit, judging from the comeliness of Eliab. (Calmet)
But the beauty of Saul's body had concealed a deformed soul. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book I
xvi. 6 . The Lord sees the heart, not the outward appearance.